Yeah! Go get her, Negi! No one is gonna miss her!

Here it is! The first Single Chapter coverage on this site! And also, it is a chapter in the middle of a story arc so if you haven’t read the past chapters, this post (and the chapter) will make no sense. If you actually haven’t read Negima, I really recommend you start since it’s a real masterpiece.

Tsukyomi is caught by the neck by Negi, who has turned into his Dark Lightning form(Come on! Break her neck! No one will miss her!). She tries to cut his arm off with her Zanmaken-ni-no-Tacchi attack, but Negi dodges it by turning his arm into lightning. She instead attacks him directly with Resshuuzan-ni-no-Tacchi, which he can’t block in time, and drops her. She then threatens to “slice up” Nodoka, something that actually makes Negi angry and he fires his arm, again turned into lightning, into her stomach, unleashes a violent series of Lightning-Powered attacks which actually blows a rock outside the ship to pieces, and tells her to quit if she’s just a mercenary hired by Fate. Tsukyomi just laughs at him, saying that she doesn’t do this for money, but instead just for the fun of killing (something here also seems to turn her on completely), and delivers a message from Fate: “I’ll be waiting”. She then pulls out Code of the Lifemaker, and uses it to summon a huge bunch of Shadow Demons. Negi stays behind to stop the demons, while the others escape in Paru and Johnny’s airships – something that actually even gets Asuna (actually Luna) worrying about him. The rest of the chapter is spent on a long, unfinished scene where the two airships escape from Tsukyomi and the Shadow Demons, protected by Ku-Fei, the Battle Maiden Squad(Yue, Collette and Bea), Saiyo (still playing with the Sagitta Magica-Turret Gun), Mana(who is for the first time in the series actually getting worried, and seeing our cool and collected mercenary sniper actually worry is not just a bit odd), Kaede, Koutarou and Yuuna, the latter mostly experimenting with her Twin Gun Artifact and seemingly not helping that much – her similarity with Yuna from Final Fantasy X and X-2 is getting even more prominent here.

My feeling that Negima is turning a bit too much towards Dragonball is getting even stronger now with Negi’s Dark Lightning Form (named by me, the actual name is a very long phrase of mixed Japanese and Latin). But, knowing Ken Akamatsu, he’ll probably find some way to correct this. Unlike Dragon Ball, Negima still has side characters (a whole lot of them, and they’re all quite capable on their own) and, more importantly, a Story. A good story at that. Dragonball stopped haing a story after book 17, Negima has been announced to be at least 400-500 chapters long so he can’t really let it slip out of his grip this early. My guess is that Negi will be unable to use Magica Erebea outside of the Magic World, since the normal world has much less magic power in the air, as someone explained a few chapters ago, or something along the lines of that. I also wonder why there hasn’t been much comedy in a while, but I guess it’ll be more of that soon enough…

Next chapter: Enter the Gravekeeper’s Palace!

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